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BOX IN
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Enclose or confine as if in a box
Synonyms:
box in; box up
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "box in" is one way to...):
confine; enclose; hold in (close in)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Context examples:
In the trance of three days ago the Count sent her his spirit to read her mind; or more like he took her to see him in his earth-box in the ship with water rushing, just as it go free at rise and set of sun.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
By the way, the prisoner has a small box in the right-hand pocket of his coat which it would be as well to remove.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I heard a noise just over my head, like the clapping of wings, and then began to perceive the woful condition I was in; that some eagle had got the ring of my box in his beak, with an intent to let it fall on a rock, like a tortoise in a shell, and then pick out my body, and devour it: for the sagacity and smell of this bird enables him to discover his quarry at a great distance, though better concealed than I could be within a two-inch board.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
On reaching home Fanny went immediately upstairs to deposit this unexpected acquisition, this doubtful good of a necklace, in some favourite box in the East room, which held all her smaller treasures; but on opening the door, what was her surprise to find her cousin Edmund there writing at the table!
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
But, Mrs. Heep gave him little trouble; for she not only returned with the deed, but with the box in which it was, where we found a banker's book and some other papers that were afterwards serviceable.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
A dozen convicts, who descended with their pistols in search of him, found him with a match-box in his hand seated beside an open powder barrel, which was one of a hundred carried on board, and swearing that he would blow all hands up if he were in any way molested.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I proposed to walk the distance quietly by myself; and very quietly, after leaving my box in the ostler's care, did I slip away from the George Inn, about six o'clock of a June evening, and take the old road to Thornfield: a road which lay chiefly through fields, and was now little frequented.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Besides the large box in which I was usually carried, the queen ordered a smaller one to be made for me, of about twelve feet square, and ten high, for the convenience of travelling; because the other was somewhat too large for Glumdalclitch’s lap, and cumbersome in the coach; it was made by the same artist, whom I directed in the whole contrivance.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
The former was on the barouche-box in a moment, the latter took her seat within, in gloom and mortification; and the carriage drove off amid the good wishes of the two remaining ladies, and the barking of Pug in his mistress's arms.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
